Road crashes in Bolton

16,226 recorded collisions since 2000.

Bolton has recorded 16,226 road collisions since 2000, 215 of them fatal and 1,858 causing serious injury. That makes it the 68th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 13% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 13.3 per 1,000 collisions sits below the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 77% since 2000, from 1,344 to 310 in 2024. The A58 is the most affected road locally, with 1,214 collisions.

Figures cover collisions reported to police (STATS19) from 2000 onward; severity definitions changed over time, so treat long-range trends with care. Source: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0.